A new study has revealed that mobiles phones are more injurious to people’s health as compared to smoking. Mobile phone usage and brain cancer are linked to each other. Using mobile phones for more than 10 years could double up one’s risk of having brain tumour.

A research carried out by a leading Australian neurosurgeon Dr. Vini Khurana said that the radiation from mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking.

Further, he said that the overall impact of mobile phone-caused brain tumors would be exposed within the next four years.

Dr Khurana’s report, Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours – A Public Health Concern, made headlines throughout the world over the weekend.

In a research paper, Dr Khurana stated, “It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation.”

Dr. Vini Khurana, award-winning cancer expert, said that reports of brain cancer related with heavy mobile phone usage are on the rise.

In a paper published on his website, Dr Khurana said that the governmental authorities and mobile phone companies must take necessary actions in order to reduce people’s exposure to their electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobiles.

“In the years 2008-2012, we will have reached the appropriate length of follow-up time to begin to definitively observe the impact of this global technology on brain tumour incidence rates,” he said.

He also told that handset radiations could heat the side of the head or potentially thermoelectrically interact with the brain, whereas Bluetooth devices and unshielded headsets could alter the handset user's head into an effective, potentially self-harming antenna.

Dr Khurana said that the number of people that live after having such a cancer was rather small.

He said that people should avoid using mobile phones as much as possible.
“A malignant brain tumour represents a life-ending diagnosis in the vast majority of those diagnosed.”

“There is a significant and increasing body of evidence – to date at least eight comprehensive clinical studies internationally and one long-term meta-analysis – for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours,” he added.